St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-03-05

Wiseman's Fablola.
Shorthouse's George Inglesant.
POETRY.
Keble's Lyra Innocentium.
Newman's Poems.
Mrs. Alexander's Lessons from Ma
ture.
Early English Ballad Poetry.
ANY standard Work.)
Wordsworth's Sonnets.
ECCLESIASTICAL.
Newman's University Sermons
Dean Church's Sermons.
Bishop Buffers Sermons.
Bishop Taylor's Holy Living and
Dying.
DR.. Wards Essays from the Dublin
Review.
Keble's Life of Bishop Wilson.
Newman's Apologize.
Archbishop Tait's Charges.
GENERAL SUBJECTS.
S. T. Coleridge's Table Talk.
Earle's Microcosm
MiIton's Minor Poems.
Of course it will not be possible in
letter to state the reasons for making
selection such as the one above. The
mature reader who takes the trouble to
nibble bit at the list will | think be
insensibly led to acquire more of the
works as they stand if he be not already
acquainted. The list includes none bat
cial mastery of some side of the English
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write long list Of favorite authors but
this would be foreign to the point.
The English language is particularly
rich in Poets, Divines and Novelists.
Of these it is best to stick to few and
of those few to make choice of the
most weighty. The list | have inserted
ia selected on this principle.
The works are none of them expen-
sive, they can be acquired through any
first class city book house or through
the editor of this newspaper. Among
the list of the hetOrodox orthodox |
inserted the name of John Stewart
Mill, but Mill [ believe, did not profess
like the rest, to believe in any form of
christianity and so can hardly be inclu-
ded in the tale.
Edward Irving was the founder of
Christian sect called. The Irvingites
which is still existent in LONDON.
The older Arnold was the head mas
ter of fashionable public school who
hailed from Oriol College, Oxford,
where Keble and Newman along with
him received their training.
Archbishop TAFT was primate Of All
England preceding the present occu-
pant of the See of Canterbury. Dur
ing his life be was much under the in
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Dean Of Westminster. After the
death of the last named divine lie re-
pented him of the evil he had inflicted
on the church by his alliance with the
legalists of the day and shook himself
free and may be said to rank now with
the divines who uphold the rites and
ceremonies of the church as we have
received them handed down from pri-
mitive antiquity.
DR.. William Stubs is the present
learned Bishop of Chester well known
as the author of the Constitutional His
tory OF England which has altogether
superseded that which was written
by Hallam.
Bishop Butler was the author of the
Analogy. Coleridge considered his SER
mons as even surprising in power the
great work that made his name ia
nous.
Jer. Taylor was termed by Emerson
F" The Shakespear of Divines.n The
Holy Living and Dying is the most
notable Of his writings.
Nathaniel HaWthorne's Transforma-
ton, mentioned previously, is one of
the most exquisite of English novels.
America and England sustained an ire
parable loss when he was snatched
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fame. No modern novel suspasses this
in lofty Imaginative and contempla-
tive powers and subtle searching dis
imagery. Music and poe
try and art all speak in one measure.